I am thankful for scientists doing the time consuming and important research to find new ways to fight disease. Here is an interesting webcast discussing how chemotherapy is used to fight cancer and how scientists are looking to algae to deliver the chemotherapy drugs to better target cancer cells (while not savaging our health cells).

I am also thankful to the funding sources that pay for this research (and for cool explanations of science, like SciShow).

Sadly the actual research paper (by government funded university professors) is published by a closed science publisher (when are we finally going to stop this practice that was outdated over a decade ago?). Thankfully those responsible for SciShow are much more interested in promoting science than maintaining outdated business models (in direct contrast to so many science journal publishers).

This is great news. Now we need someone really smart to possibly combine this algae with the nanobots that are also making headlines.

Tanvir Hossain December 1st, 2015 @ 5:32 am

Hi John,
I was totally unaware of such algae until I read your content. It’s obviously a great news for the mankind that cancer treatment is going to be transformed in a whole new level. Eagerly waiting for the implementation of the research. It will be a moral boost up against fighting cancer.